u/Pretend-You-6490

Hello, all,

I am feeling frightfully alone right now and have no idea where to turn. Spiritually, I don't feel like I really got anywhere and the lack of community is extremely difficult for me right now. I am in the middle of a nasty divorce from an abusive man. And the abuse hasn't ended. I took such refuge and comfort in my Catholic faith when we were married, but after he initiated divorce, every single Catholic supposed best friend ghosted me. I found a new faith community of people who have 100% stepped up and been there for me. They are a Pentacostal church. There is real love there and I have absolutely experienced the Holy Spirit. BUT, I never feel like I can really be a part of their family because I disagree with fat too much of what they believe. I have a very difficult time with accepting the Bible as pure truth and perfect word of God, for example. There are so many places where Scripture contradicts itself. Because of this, it feels like I can't really belong to their church.

But being without a good spiritual home right now, especially, is very isolating and I am wicked lonely.

I found the book about Christian witchcraft by Sara and read it. So much of it makes sense to me. But I have no one in my life I can talk to about any of it. What is worse is that even though the oath of the Christian witch feels so completely right, down to my bones, it has actually made it harder for me to be close with God. Before this, I was incredibly close to Him. I don't know if it was the introduction of the witchy stuff so much as the disillusionment I had with yet another branch of Christianity. Every branch I have been a part of has told me who God is and it is like I am back to not knowing.

How do I get to know Him again? And how do I battle this loneliness?

Thank you for reading.

I read a book almost twenty years ago about the sinking of Atlantis. I cannot for the life of me remember the title and I don't seem to have the book on my shelves anymore. I remember it being a paperback. I don't think it was exceptionally long. It was divided into parts, each part happening at a different point in time. The first part was the sinking of Atlantis. Only a few survivors made it off the sinking continent. There were more women than men, so the female leader randomly assigns the women to husbands, with each husband receiving multiple wives to ensure their race. That section ends with the leader assigning herself to a man that I believe she had butted heads with but it ends on a hopeful note with her thinking that it may work out for them after all. The final section of the book I believe ends with the cycle coming full circle - the words were something like, And the ice melted and the seas rose. The implication, I think, was that climate change was going to cause history to repeat itself.

I know I really liked this book and I would love to have it again. Any ideas?